The Youth Hostels Association is to close 32 loss-making properties over the next three years.
Many of them are in remote locations.
It says the closures will help pay for an £18m package to update the rest of its 227 hostels in England and Wales over the next 10 years.
References: The Times 01/02/06 page 23, The Daily Telegraph 01/02/06 page 10
